John Adams was born on October 30 ... A sixth child, Elizabeth, was stillborn in 1777. In 1765 Adams took his first steps into public life. Politics absorbed him immediately: there was no mention ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin ... The creations and inventions of Franklin's adult life are legendary and far-flung. He published the oft-quoted Poor Richard's ...